-
Media Drive locations
Setting up some new Media Composer 5.x stuff and looking to “encapsulate” projects & media into one folder at creation. What I am after is:
z:\
MyFolder
AvidProject1
AvidProject1
Statistics
AvidProject1 Settings.avs
AvidProject1.avp
AvidProject1 MyBin.avb
Avid MediaFiles
MXF
1
MyMediaFile1.mxf
MyMediaFile2.mxfNote the combination of what Avid calls “project folder” and “media folder” into an overlying “job folder”.
The only thing I can see keeping this from being reality is that when importing materials, the Avid seems to allow *only* selection of a drive letter (windows) and not a drive letter/path (or UNC folder/filename). I’ve seen that some users have resorted to using the dos subst command or some such utility to map local folders to a drive letter, but this is not acceptable to me a a solution because it requires leaving the MC application in order to properly change projects.
Is there another way of forcing MC to import to a user-provided folder that does not have to exist at the root of a drive letter?
-
2 Replies
-
[Sam Marrocco] “Is there another way of forcing MC to import to a user-provided folder that does not have to exist at the root of a drive letter?”
Nope. Avid puts media in this path only:
Z:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\[Numbered Folder]\[MEDIA]
Using the “Subst D: Z:\My Folder” command is your only option if you want to work with way.
A better option would be to let Avid do what it does, than use MDV (free – do a search on CreativeCow for the link) or MediaCopy to copy/move your media after you’re done.
y recommendation is for MediaCopy – it’s cheap ($95) and Automatic Duck has a reputation for quality products, and their customer support is great too. Plus, it does a lot more than MDV does.
https://www.automaticduck.com/products/mc/
—————-
Michael Hancock
http://www.oswaldcommunications.com -
The other “poor man’s option” is to just drop the Avid Media Files folder into your project folder when you are done working and want to archive it. To restore later on, you just bring the Avid media files folder to the surface level of the drive.
Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up